British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 November 1913, Page 2

British and Foreign.

[FEU PRESS ASSOCIATION.]. E I iECTMC TELEGK ATII—COrYBIGHT . ELECTKICn% AND THE SO UTH AFIIICAfI INDIANS. London, Nov. j£>. The Daily -Mail's Durban eorrespoiulenUreports that colliery employers are keeping the Indian workers in barbed-wire enclosures. The wire is connected with electrical stations, and any attempting an escape receive a snock of 22(1 volts. Mr Laugh ton, the lung's Counsel, considers the indentured Indians are not obliged to leave Natal or pay a poll-tax because their contracts were unsigned, having only a thumb smudge, ami they are silent regarding repairiaiion. (Received This Day, 8.1.0 a.m.) ENEMIES YET. Capetown, Nov. 2-\. The committee of seven failed to suggest any solution fn connection with the split in The South African Nationalist party, as General Herfzog declined at attend. VICEROY TO RESIGN. Bombay, Nov. 2'5. Many reports are current that Lord Ilardinge is resigning at New Year, owing to ill-health. Lord Kitchener is likely To succeed him. A DENIAL. Washington, Nov. 2-1. Mr W. -7. 'Bryan denies the report lhat he has protested against (he despatch of British warships to Mexican waters. MR \\\ BYIUN CRITICISED. New York, Nov. 2-1 The Pan-American conference a I Worcester discussed the Monroe doctrine. Mr C. A. Sherell, exMinister for Argentina, suggested that if the United States intervened in Mexico, the other South American republics should act in concert. Other speakers urged that the Monroe doctrine policy be abandoned, and the adoption of Tan-American defence. Mr John Hays Hammond declared that he would not invest a single cent abroad while Mr W. Bryan was Secretary for State. Anyone who made a foreign investment was lacking in sense, and any nation failing to proteH citizens as investors was unworthy of tlie name of a nation.